diff --git a/games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4.ebuild b/games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4-r1.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4.ebuild
rename to games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4-r1.ebuild
index 48395e6d88fae..06d0d3eeef768 100644
--- a/games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4.ebuild
+++ b/games-util/slade/slade-3.2.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE="fluidsynth timidity webkit"
 REQUIRED_USE="${LUA_REQUIRED_USE}"
 
+# <libfmt-11 https://github.com/sirjuddington/SLADE/issues/1746
 DEPEND="
 	${LUA_DEPS}
 	app-arch/bzip2:=
-	dev-libs/libfmt:=
+	<dev-libs/libfmt-11:=
 	>=media-libs/dumb-2:=
 	media-libs/freeimage[jpeg,png,tiff]
 	media-libs/glew:0=